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John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 25:20
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And all the mingled people, etc.] Not the Arabians, who are mentioned afterwards, (<242524>Jeremiah 25:24); but rather a mixed people in the land of Egypt, such as came out of it along with the Israelites; or were near it, and bordered upon it, as the Targum; which renders it, all the bordering kings; or rather a mixture of people of different nations that dwelt by the sea coasts, either the Mediterranean, or the Red sea, as others think: and all the kings of the land of Uz; not the country of Job, called by the Greeks Ausitis, as the Vulgate Latin version; but rather a country of Idumea, so called from Uz the son of Dishan, the son of Seir, (<250421>Lamentations 4:21 <013628>Genesis 36:28); and all the kings of the land of the Philistines; the petty kings of it, called the lords of the Philistines elsewhere, who were great enemies to the people of the Jews: the prophecy of their destruction is in forty seventh chapter, and whose principal cities are next mentioned: and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; of Ashkelon, and the sword in it, and ruin, (see <244705>Jeremiah 47:5,7). “Azzah” is the same with Gaza, whose destruction is also foretold in (<244701>Jeremiah 47:1,5); (see <440826>Acts 8:26); “Ekron” was another of the cities of the Philistines; (see <090510>1 Samuel 5:10); and “Ashdod” is the same with Azotus, another of their cities, (<440840>Acts 8:40); called “the remnant of Ashdod”, because the remains only of a once very strong and fortified place; but was so weakened and wasted by Psammiticus, king of Egypt, in a blockade of it, for the space of nine and twenty yearsf517, before he took it, that when he had got in it, it was but as the carcass of a city, to what it was beforef518.
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